Grant Gerlock
ReporterGrant Gerlock started covering Des Moines and central Iowa for IPR in March 2019. Before that he covered food, agriculture and rural life for Harvest Public Media at NET in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his work was recognized with a Regional Murrow Award and awards from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Grant has a master’s degree in mass communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He grew up on a farm outside of Cumberland in southwest Iowa where he listened to public radio in the tractor. You can contact Grant at ggerlock@iowapublicradio.org.
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A bill expanding Iowa’s public-funded charter school system passed in the Iowa Senate, sending the bill to Gov. Kim Reynolds. The proposal was one of her school choice priorities for the legislative session. -
The ACLU of Iowa is suing the state for denying Medicaid coverage for transgender Iowans to receive gender-affirming surgery.
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A small crowd gathered at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines Tuesday night in response to Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd.
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The leader of the labor union representing Iowa corrections officers says a proposed budget increase for next year is not enough to provide safe working conditions in Iowa prisons.
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A bill creating an independent system of publicly-funded charter schools took another step forward in the Iowa legislature Thursday.
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Creating new professional licensing programs, or expanding existing ones, would be more difficult under a bill passed out of an Iowa House subcommittee Wednesday.
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In an after-midnight vote, the Iowa House passed a bill to provide public funding for charter schools run by groups unaffiliated with local school districts.
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The Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case where a jury found former Gov. Terry Branstad discriminated against a state official, in part because of his sexual orientation.
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The trial of a Des Moines Register reporter that raised an outcry from free press advocates ended in a not guilty verdict Wednesday.
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In the second day of her trial, Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testified that she was arrested at a racial justice protest as she was trying to go farther away from an area where police were clashing with protesters.
